Star Fox: Epsilon

Chapter 11: The Small Cost Of The True Conviction

That's what Lylat earned for their mistrust on us, we were their protectors! Not only Star Fox but the entire Cornerian fleet! I did everything I could to stop the project but democracy won eventually and Epsilon went official. They sold dreams of heroism and purpose but those were blatant lies, the eventual rebellion of the institution was planned since before its foundation, treason and selfishness was Epsilon's nucleus.

I was going to die there, who was I fooling? It was over, we lost, the galaxy lost, I already knew that would happen since my contacts sent me some of Epsilon's confidential documents, the words there were not subtle at all, they mentioned everything that had happened, first the secret mission to Dirartar and its silent conquest, then the war against Star Wolf and they all had the same ending, perpetual domination, that was already happening and we were Lylat's only hope to take the operation down, but that chance was long gone.

They worked with wrong education, an aberrant worldview full of madness and anarchy out of the natural order of things, they claimed to be defenders of change while they actually were promoters of death and destruction, I said no more! I told my team, the fleet and my people that I would fight for what was right! And I did that!

She believed me before the beginning, she never doubt of me, she trusted my word, she joined the fight because of me! And she was going to die! It was my fault! We were both there because of my stubbornness!

I had to be stubborn, that brought me there, to that abyss, but I didn't regret it, I didn't regret it at all! The pain, the suffering, they were worth it! Every single wound, every night of insomnia, they were nothing compared to what I was about to achieve! I was going to end with Epsilon's tyranny once and for all! But I failed, I failed my people, I failed the galaxy, I failed her, I just wanted to make the galaxy a better place for my wife, for my sons! A bright future for my future sons! So I failed them too.

She was asleep, but not because of innocent tiredness, she was hungry and thirsty as I was, I couldn't bear seeing her like that, broken either from the outside as from the inside, the last was totally on me, I shouldn't have got her involved, that was my mission, my quest, my crusade, it was personal, how? They messed with the minds and hearts of the poor children! They taught them wild, mischievous values that needed to be eradicated! And I couldn't do anything about it! Inside that blasted cell!

I just hoped that someone, on the smallest corner of the edges of Lylat would remember me and adopt the mission eventually, a never ending one, a constant fight for what was right, a fight to bring them down.

The last speeches started to come out, innerly. "Krystal, I wanted to give you the greatest gifts of all, peace, tranquility, joy, that was my purpose, my beloved, I'm sorry I wasn't competent enough to make that a reality, I'm really sorry, love, I'm so sorry."